[conniew]

No doubt that Canada can do that but, unless the American defendant has assets in Canada, it won't do the plaintiff any good. Under the SPEECH Act (passed unanimously by Congress in 2010 and signed into law by Obama), a foreign-court's libel judgment cannot be enforced in the United States unless the foreign country's libel laws are at least as protective of free speech as U.S. law.

I didn't know this!! I'm so glad to hear that! I'm going to read the case you cited above regarding hyperbole on the internet, too. I've been looking for something like that for another case we are involved in!

[Lurking Libertarian]

Info on the SPEECH Act is here. The Ninth Circuit's decision in Obsidian Finance is available on the court's website here (scroll down to January 17).

[machogirl]

Didn’t this man, get censured at all for his behavior going on sites that can’t be named but named by Ezra Levant, and using many different user names posting words meant to incite and entrap, while he was employed by Canada’s Human Rights Division? IMHO, the Canadian Bar should have stripped him of his license. That practice of creating your own lawsuits, IMHO, is tantamount to fraud. Since he said things about himself (if i understand what Ezra said), he’s blown any type of defamation lawsuit and should not profit.